Technorati Tags: Host Integration Server , DB2 , DRDA , DTC , Transaction This is something I knew a bit about, but not the whole story, so I had a talk with one of our developers, Vitaliy Golub, who very kindly explained to me (sometimes giving me a few kicks) how things work. Much of the below I gathered...

One issue that came to us recently was on how to replicate SQL data containing NTEXT and IMAGE columns to DB2. Replicating most other data is straightforward, but NTEXT and IMAGE is a bit of a problem. Currently our data provider does not support LOBs (Large objects) such as CLOB or BLOB (character/binary...

Internally and externally we get customer inquiries wanting to know how to get configuration and status information from Host Integration Server without using the manager interface. Well, this is fairly simple, but complicated if you are not familiar with using WMI. Most users are familiar with using...

In Part 1 of this series I covered testing SQL queries using the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for DB2 using a linked server. In Part 2 I showed how you can test performance with SSIS. However, in many cases, customers may be using C# or VB.NET, writing web services or stand-alone applications to query DB2...

Technorati Tags: Data Providers , DB2 , Host Integration Server , Microsoft OLE DB Provider for DB2 , OLEDB , Performance , SSIS , SQL Server In my previous entry, I covered testing SQL queries using the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for DB2 using a linked server, but many customers really need to test performance...

Technorati Tags: DB2 , SQL Server , SSIS , Microsoft OLE DB Provider for DB2 , Host Integration Server , Data Providers , Performance , OLEDB There are many factors that can affect pulling data from DB2 into SQL Server (or other applications). These include the network speed, hard drive; machine CPU...